ZRR's Upper Pininsula Weather Blog

Last Updated: 2:29 PM GMT on June 20, 2009 — Last Comment: 12:22 PM GMT on June 15, 2009

	Cold Great Lakes Pattern Broken Finally

Posted by: ZRR, 2:29 PM GMT on June 20, 2009

I stated in my last blog it would be useless to start planting a garden untill at least after the 9th of June.

Well the persistant Northwest to north flow aloft and the pool of below normal temps over the eastern half of Canada has all changed. As you might remember the summer of 08 was not very warm with only a hand full of days in the 80's that was because of a similar pattern. So warmth is here to stay for the next two weeks at lest the question is will this pattern persist, I really hope so not only is this a classic warm pattern (southwest flow aloft) its a wet one too. Dry summers have been the rule lately would be nice to see that change.

Oh also a nice single cell thunderstorm rumbeled through the towns in southern Iron County last night. Wow what a beatifull display of lightning looked like a good half inch of rain as well.

Radar View Last Night below

Ok gonna check the garden see in anything has popped up yet

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	Global Warming or cooling

Posted by: ZRR, 2:16 PM GMT on May 31, 2009

Hello folks I havn't blogged on here in over a yearand my weather station is in complete disrepare, this might have something to do with getting married and gaining a wife step daughter, my own 4 month old baby girl...bussy bussy bussy with lifes changes. However I still love weather and try and study it everyday.It seems to me from looking at the Norhtern Hemisphere sea ice records and record cold U.P. winter of 08-09 that global warming has not only leveled off bu...

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	ZRR's Station back up

Posted by: ZRR, 2:48 PM GMT on May 11, 2008

Finally got all my instruments up and running, this time located a few miles southeast of my old Iron River station. Its sits at the foothills of Caspian hill at an elevation of 1540 feet.The accuracy should be very good except for wind speed and direction from the west due to the hilly terrain.Also of note there are now two stations in the Iron River area always nice to compare my reading to a nearby station.

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	Upper Michigan Upper Low Blues

Posted by: ZRR, 2:58 PM GMT on May 10, 2008

Nothing much has changed in the overall weather pattern since my last blog. uggggghh. Things have gotten not at cold obviously with the ever strengthening sun angle, but things continue to stay average to below average.The blocking over the arctic continues unabated. Things will try and warm over the next 5 days but models now agree that a very strong ridge will develop just of the western USA coast and punch into British Columbia. As this happens the jet and storm ...

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	Springs Vacation in the Upper Midwest

Posted by: ZRR, 7:18 PM GMT on April 26, 2008

Haven't been able to follow things very closely in the weather world lately now that I have a wonderful wife and 7 year old daughter in my life. I still have good idea of what going on, but I haven't been able to get in depth on anything in these blogs. After a wonderful turn around in the weather pattern things temperatures are again below normal. The persistent north-central trough finally pulled back west a little, and the polar vortex in Canada backed to wester...

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